From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Seaward Subject: Updating Guix package manager on Debian-based systems Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:24:07 -0000 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="==VsiaxoCoW5KfciPcrIdttW9kLhNxVw==" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40755) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzKOp-0001T9-GG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 06:26:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzKOm-0003tl-S6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 06:26:03 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-x230.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::230]:53065) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzKOm-0003tE-Kl for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 06:26:00 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-x230.google.com with SMTP id k4so13675517wmc.1 for ; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 03:26:00 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org --==VsiaxoCoW5KfciPcrIdttW9kLhNxVw== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, Previous discussion suggested that Guix (the package manager) could not be included in Debian (and therefore derivatives) due to technical policy. As a Debian-derivative user (PureOS and sometimes Ubuntu) I'd still like a convenient way to try out and recommend Guix to others. That is, more convenient than the (very thorough) instructions at https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html I think this hinges on how to get updates once Guix is installed. If Guix can perform updates itself (including system re-configuration as required), then a one-off first-time script for Debian-based systems would be sufficient. I'm going to (slowly) try my hand at this as time permits. But, if Guix can't update itself or can't perform configuration changes on a parent Debian system (should the need arise), then a deb package is definitely more suitable. Delivering it in a deb repository (rather than just offering a deb file to download) would be best, because then users would get updates easily. For the user it would be as simple as this... sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://magical.unicorn/repos/guix stable main' # maybe some command here for a key sudo apt update sudo apt install guix Of course, someone would need to keep packaging guix as a deb, build the debs and push them to https://magical.unicorn/repos -- it wasn't clear to me if this kind of effort is feasible? Regards, David --==VsiaxoCoW5KfciPcrIdttW9kLhNxVw==--